Bruce Trail - Map 17, 7th line to Hwy 9

 A good nights sleep and a rather pathetic hotel breakfast but we were ready for another hike. Because I had such trouble with the hills the previous day, and it was still hot and humid, we just did a short one.

We parked and started walking at the same parking stop as the previous day

but in this direction the trail went around an old quarry that had been planted with native plants and grasses.

Mourning Cloak Butterfly

Range: Mourning Cloaks are found across Canada and as far north as the tundra. They are one of the few species of butterfly whose range extends into Europe and Asia.

Habitat: Mourning Cloaks can be found in a number of habitats including shorelines, forests and woodlands, fields, gardens and parks.

Diet: Adults – While Mourning Cloak butterflies do forage on flowers for nectar, they generally prefer tree sap, such as maple, poplar, oak and birch. They are a species of butterfly that ‘mudpuddles’, which means they get minerals from damp sand, manure, compost as well as rotting fruit and other moist organic matter.

Caterpillars - Mourning Cloak larvae feed on a variety of trees such as elms, many willows, hackberries, Paper Birch and trees in the Populus genus such as Trembling Aspen and cottonwoods. From Canadian Wildlife Federation website.

 

A little further along was the view from Humber Heights

over the Humber River valley. Still hot and hazy.

Red Trillium in seed according Nic's wildflower app.

 

White Coral Mushrooms

Home to many.

I know I said that there should be more benches but I don't envy whoever carried this cement one in.

Around a meadow, past a pond,

and over a creek.

A quick look on the internet and

I wasn't able to identify these.

Up a hill and a quick scurry across a very busy Hwy 9 and we were done.

Just under 4km took us a couple of hours. Because we stayed in Orangeville, we started a little earlier than usual and I was able to drive home and make it to sailing that evening.